@StahlWurst You do realise that feminists tend to also focus on real world stuff. Art and life have a cycle of imitation, it's not a one way thing. Being all "COME BACK WHEN THE WORLD IS FIXED" kinda shows you don't really care.

I mean why not then strive to make video games, a world we can control, more representative and safe for women especially when the real world isn't? What is there to lose? Reply+3

You've have certainly hoped that those people moderately disagreeing with Anita's view that there is a big issue of misogyny in videogame culture might reconsider their views given the frankly embarrassing reaction of thousands of men to this video.

You can't distance those two things. The sexist reaction to the video in itself is part of the very issue that she is talking about.

If there truly was no issue then people would have just gone "well I don't agree with that but whatever". not this insane vitriolic response from what isn't just some lunatic fringe but a sizable section is not a majority.

Even if you disagree 100% with the video, look at the response to it. now imagine what goes on in chatrooms online gaming, conventions etc when people are not logging every insult.

Men in the videogame community have a massive fucking problem. And it needs to be talked about. Reply+3

@ollyn Silent Hill is rife with sexual imagery specifically with objectification and sexualised violence towards women (the nurses being a prime example and Pyramid Head is virtually an embodiment of male violence).

That said it's done with far more awareness, purposefully playing on these themes as opposed to being blissfully ignorant as most games are.

Not that that makes it fine but I dare say they made a choice there and would stand by it as opposed to denying it. Reply+4

@CynicalMe3 Yeah that's what resulted in her not being able to sleep in her own home the other night. I recognise that's not the response of all those against the video but thought it important to show as I'd seen a few commenters implying she was over-reacting. Reply+3

I once knew a guy who was studying to work in the fashion retail market. He explained to me that 95% of all purchases are made based on the inward opportunity that the consumer recognises in potential growth. Each season the industry would notice a pattern - for every sale made profit would increase, loss sales and profit would decrease. This marketing phenomenon is called "The Verswayze Effect". Many insiders have challenge the theory however. The general consensus among all retailer experts aged 18-21 is that marketing is just a layman's way of saying "Who am I?", in other words we are all in the same ship, but each ship is it's own captain. Reply0

This has been simmering on some tertiary heat source for awhile, and it may be time to serve it. When a classic game is re-released for digital delivery, by what criteria are they being reviewed?

The reality, of course, is that in order to maintain healthy relationships with publishers you need to review their product - great, and small. This no-doubt includes "channels" like Xbox Live Arcade, which must be where these workaday, worthless reviews come from. In some cases there's simply no need (beyond the business realities alluded to earlier) for young men to toil in describing them, because these games are so elemental: they have two buttons, and one mode of movement. What is it? It is Xevious. End of review. The word even sounds like an adjective.

These games are cheap, cheap, cheap, but ironically something that costs ten dollars and has a Goddamned demo is scrutinized more in terms of value. Is it Xevious? How much more Xevious should it have been to rise to the ten dollar level? Could, perhaps, the enemies enter the screen more Xeviously? The game appears to lose points in graphics and sound simply for being old.

It isn't impossible to discuss fundamental games in a way that is interesting and valuable. But I don't know if plugging ancient games into the Hardcore Review Machine and outputting your stupid little number improves the world. Reply0

If your a fan of Final Fantasy then the film is fantastic. Pure fanservice, and in essence polar opposite of Spirits Within. Try to get a genjeral background knowledgde of the story of 7. You don't really need it, but it definaltey helps. Start here! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy_vii Reply0